Wood Elementals!

[Devon]

quasi-elementals

Quasi-elemental planes occur on the boundaries between the primary 4 elemental planes and the Positive and Negative Material planes, where the "pure" traits, the logical conclusions, are brought out of the primary element, as follows:

Earth-positive = Mineral
Earth-negative = Dust
Fire-positive = Radiance
Fire-negative = Ash
Water-positive = Steam
Water-negative = Salt
Air-positive = Lightning
Air-negative = Vacuum
The quasi-elemental planes are explained in some detail by the old planar appendices to 2e AD&D, but they are only passingly covered in the 3e MotP.

So, I have quite a few quasi-elementals to go (I've already created Lightning and Radiance).
- Devon

 

[Krishnath]

Hmm... I wonder what a Vacuum Quasi-elemental looks like...

By the way, I'm planning on making more 'alternate' elementals such as the Wood Elemental above.
Should I or shouldn't I? That my friends is the 10 dollar Question...

 

[Devon]

Well, there are certainly other elements that aren't quite covered by the traditional four-element system, even with pos/neg permutations.

I know in some Asian cultures metal was an element, as was wood (which we have covered). "Metal" could simply be a Mineral quasi-elemental with no gemstones of any sort... other possibilities are available.

Just no plastic elementals... ; )

- Devon

Oh, who am I kidding... plastic elementals would be cool, too.

 

[Krishnath]

nah, I was thinking more in the lines of Psionic, Shadow, and Void... not to mention dracimentals, but that's a whole noter ballgame, I want to see the Elemental Dragons first.

 

[Devon]

Vacuum elementals -

I would imagine they are either incorporeal energy creatures immune to the effects of being in vacuum, or they are travelling vortices of vacuum... they could also simply be grayish black humanoids, flying, made of no specific material.

- Devon

 

[Krishnath]

Hmm... I suppose Vacuum Elementals are the natural predators of Dust Elementals

By the way, I'm posting the Half-Paraelementals a little later

 

[Devon]

Then we could get Hoover the Steam elemental to go after the Dust elemental.

The Salt elemental could go after the Chrome elemental (wouldn't that be the pits!).
So if you kill a smoke elemental, do you get an Ash elemental?

Actually, if you took a wood elemental and burned it, it would be an Ash, Smoke and a Radiance (heat) elemental.

Or should Heat have its own element? You certainly couldn't stir it back into the the yogurt if you did (sorry, obscure references to Tom Stoppard's literary chaos theory are trying to take over my brain... maybe its time to go fowling).

- Devon

 

[Krishnath]

LOL! By the way, I've posted the half-paraelemental template now...